Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 13, 2026
BMBL, October 13: news, one halt, and a gap that held
BMBL opened up 57% after news and held near that level into the close.
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What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $6.15, on 24M shares.
The open
It opened up 57%, at $5.97.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 7:55 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 7:55 a.m.: 51% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $5.95, near its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 57.1% to $5.97 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $5.95 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:10 a.m. | News (24/7 Wall Street): Bumble May Be Swiping Left on Wall Street in a $1 Billion Deal |
| 8:24 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Bumble Inc. to Be Acquired by Ithaca Holdings, the Long-Term Holding Company for Enduring Technology Businesses |
| 8:30 a.m. | News (Reuters): Bumble to go private in $1.3 billion deal |
| 8:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.80 |
| 8:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.15 |
| 8:52 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.15 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.97, up 57.1% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.95, 3.3% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $3.80
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.97
- Gap at the open
- +57.1%
- Pre-market high
- $6.15 at 8:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.15 at 8:52 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.82
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.95
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +56.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.96 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 60.14 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.44 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 27.7×
- Float
- 90.46 million shares, from filings as of October 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 131.97 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 19 minutes after the latest news item before it (Reuters, 8:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 24.13 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (39%), 13.91 million in the first 30 minutes (23%), and 23.53 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (38%).
- Other days BMBL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 12, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:55 a.m. | 8:50 a.m. | 55 min 0 s | down 0.1% | $5.95, up 50.8% | up 0.4% | News pending |
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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